Key skills
CRMLeadershipRisk ManagementCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead a team of Agricultural Relationship Managers focused on serving agricultural producers and agribusiness clients
- Drive business development, portfolio growth, client satisfaction, and market expansion across the Midwest region
- Provide leadership and coaching to a geographically dispersed team
- Partner with clients, producers, centers of influence, and internal business partners to deliver specialized agricultural banking solutions
- Foster a team culture that is customer obsessed while overseeing relationship management, business development activities, and related risk
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or other related field, or equivalent work experience
- Typically 10 or more years of business banking or relevant experience
- Typically five or more years of management/leadership experience
- Extensive knowledge of agricultural banking, production agriculture, agricultural lending, and underwriting practices
- Thorough knowledge of banking products and services, banking operations, and market trends
- Demonstrated success in new business development and relationship management
- Strong credit analysis, risk management, and underwriting proficiency
- Experience leading geographically dispersed or remote teams
- Established relationships within the agricultural industry and producer community
- Strong leadership, coaching, and talent development skills
- Well-developed analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities
- Effective verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
- Proficiency with CRM systems, Microsoft Office applications, and other banking technologies
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law